Hall v. Hale

The only controversy in this case relates to the performance of annual labor under the act of con*352gress of January, 1880. Appellee located the Geneva lode on the 8th day of June, 1878. On the 7th of August following he ceased work upon the property. Nothing was done by him in 1879, and on June 12, 1S80, appellants relocated the premises as abandoned ground, calling it the “Empire Lode.” Thereafter, and in September, 1880, appellee re-entered and performed one hundred dollars’ worth of work.

The act of congress above mentioned is an amendment of section 2324, Revised Statutes of the United…